EYFS - what area does "baking" come under

[jazee]

Sorry for been really thick sometimes I find it hard to work out what area things come under, especially when I have had a housefull of kids!
Is baking PSRN ie counting?
and on that note, what would you say "playing with trains" is?
Finished work now but still have my own three and a friend, so knackered
Help!

Sorry, not that thick really, I can really spell - "being"

Baking can come under all sorts - PRSN, Creative, Physical I would say are the main bits. Psrn would be measuring, weighing, pouring, also linking to KUW - it goes in liquid (or similar) and comes out different.

Of course it will have huge aspects of CLL and PSED.

Playing with trains - again physical, psrn, cll - depends on the context and your focus

KUW - noticing and commenting on change - of ingredients from separate to together, to set when cooked.

Loads and Loads

Take your pick:-

Some will be dependant upon age, and how many children you did it with.

Physical Development - Using Equipment and Materials (if you used spoons, mixers, pouring measuring etc)

Physical Development - Health and Bodily Awareness (always have a chat about importance of cleaning hands, and washing, and things that are good/no so good for use)

Personal Social and Emotional Development - Behaviour and Self Control (taking turns, waiting, sharing)

Creative Development - Exploring Media and Materials/being creative - (notice and feel different textures when using ingredients, descriptive words as you work, what is happening as you add different ingredients)

Communication Language and Literacy -
Language for Thinking (talking through the process with the children, asking them questions about what is happending, encouraging them to explain why we use or do certain things)

Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy - Numbers as Lables and for Counting (counting spoonfulls, looking at numbers on scales, is there more or less of different ingredients, counting papercases, dividing how many cakes each)

I may be wrong, but I love baking for this reason you can bring in so many areas of the EYFS and include all ages, I always go through the whole process from washing hands, turing on the oven, warning ovens are hot, taking turns, adding ingredients...............

anyway I'm sure you can find more or less if need be.

Hi everyone,
Thank you - very helpfull I suppose the problem I find is when I am wanting to put one of these next to an observation photo and I find it can quite often cover so many things.
Do you chose the main one? or put them all?

You don't need to put them all. Just pick one or two that are most useful to you. Consider what use the observation is going to be for those reading? Is it something new the child has done, that will interest the parent? Does it help you plan the next activity for this child? Does it show Ofsted that you were right to plan this activity for this particular child?

For each child, consider which aspect they were most interested in or whether your observation shows they have progressed/developed in some way or links to previous obs & plans in some way. Sometimes you find you have built up more notes on certain areas of learning and you might find it helpful to focus on an area you've done less on this time around.

Because children learn in a holistic way in every activity it is difficult to say they will cover a particular thing in a particular activity. Who knows what they will learn until they actually do it?

It can be better to look at what happened during the activity in retrospect and see which areas of learning came out more strongly. Because a child learns best from following his/her interests it will be the bit of the activity where they showed most enthusiasm for or perhaps they repeated for pleasure.

If you look at it from this point of view you are evaluating at the same time and you have very clear links to the child's development and interests and it leads very nicely to next steps. Ticks all the boxes for Ofsted.

I hope this helps you Jazee. Please don't ever think you are being thick. Sometimes it's easy to make the EYFS much more complicated than it has to be. Remember it is meant to be a tool to help you so use it in the way which suits you best.